We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The solution works well."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Very good in-line compression."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The latency is very low."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"Low-maintenance solution with hyperscale feature so it has the ability to utilize the resources for the VMware cluster setup on which Citrix VDA runs."
"The solution is stable and reliable. This is one of the main reasons why we purchased this solution."
"The update capability of VxRail is crucial for us."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization."
"The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The product does not support file services."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"It needs faster deployment of security patches."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature."
"It can be a bit complex for engineers who are new to it. There's a learning curve involved. They have to learn to operate it."
"The initial setup between the different Dell departments is fragmented. The engineers who come to rack/stack and do the initial config should be trained on all the areas and work with the different Dell departments whilst they are onsite to give a smoother install and better experience for customer."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rackspace OpenStack. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. VxRail report.
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